The
Historian Of Cho-Chou Honestly Remarks That He Knows Of No Reason Why The
Production Of Silk Should Have Ceased There, Except The Fact That The Worms
Refused To Live There....
The palmy days of the silk industry were in the
T'ang dynasty." - H.C.]
NOTE 3. - "About a li from the southern suburbs of this town, the great
road to Shantung and the south-east diverged, causing an immediate
diminution in the number of carts and travellers" (Oxenham). [From Peking
"to Cheng-ting fu, says Colonel Bell (Proc.R.G.S., XII. 1890, p. 58), the
route followed is the Great Southern highway; here the Great Central Asian
highway leaves it." The Rev. W.S. Ament says (l.c., 121) about the
bifurcation of the road, one branch going on south-west to Pao-Ting fu and
Shan-si, and one branch to Shantung and Ho-nan: "The union of the two roads
at this point, bringing the travel and traffic of ten provinces, makes Cho
Chou one of the most important cities in the Empire. The magistrate of this
district is the only one, so far as we know, in the Empire who is relieved
of the duty of welcoming and escorting transient officers. It was the
multiplicity of such duties, so harassing, that persuaded Fang Kuan-ch'eng
to write the couplet on one of the city gateways: Jih pien ch'ung yao, wu
shuang ti: T'ien hsia fan nan, ti yi Chou. 'In all the world, there is no
place so public as this:
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